Luciano Moggi facts for kids
Luciano Moggi (born 10 July 1937) is a former Italian football executive. He worked for many famous clubs like Roma, Lazio, Torino, Napoli, and Juventus. During his career, his teams won many important trophies. These included six league titles (five with Juventus and one with Napoli), three Coppa Italia cups, five Supercoppa Italiana cups, and several European titles with Juventus, such as the UEFA Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup. He also helped Napoli win a UEFA Cup. After his time as an executive, he became a freelance journalist and commentator.
In May 2006, Moggi was involved in a big sports scandal known as Calciopoli. This event is still talked about a lot, especially because it focused heavily on Juventus and Moggi. Later, some of the charges against him were dropped because of a legal rule called the statute of limitations. In 2020, Moggi asked the European Court of Human Rights to look into how his trials were handled.
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Luciano Moggi's Early Life
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Luciano Moggi was born on 10 July 1937, in a small town called Monticiano, in Italy. He came from a humble family. From a very young age, he loved football. He even played for a short time for a team called Akragas in 1963.
Moggi left school when he was 13 years old. He started working for the Italian railway company. While working, he also played football as a defender for smaller teams. In the late 1960s, he wasn't happy with his railway job and wanted to earn money from football. He started to dream of becoming a talent scout, someone who finds new, promising young players, especially in smaller football clubs.
His son, Alessandro Moggi, also works in football. He is an agent for many football players and managers. His company, GEA World, was one of the biggest groups of football agents for several years.
Moggi's Football Career
Before becoming a top football executive, Moggi worked as a railway station caretaker. In the early 1970s, he met Italo Allodi, who was a director at Juventus, a very famous football club. Allodi gave Moggi some smaller jobs at Juventus.
Moggi then worked with and for several other teams before returning to Juventus as a chief managing director in 1994. These teams included Roma, Lazio, Torino, and Napoli. With these clubs, he helped them win many league titles and other important cups.
Finding Young Talent
In the 1970s, when Moggi first started in senior football with Juventus, he worked under Italo Allodi. Moggi was very good at finding young football players. He created a network of scouts who looked for talented kids in local fields. Some of the famous players he found early in their careers include Paolo Rossi in 1972, Claudio Gentile in 1973, and Gaetano Scirea in 1974. These players later became very important in Italian football history.
After a few years, Moggi got a more important role. He also started making connections with other teams to arrange player transfers. However, he had a disagreement with the then-Juventus president, Giampiero Boniperti, which led him to leave the club.
Time at Roma
Moggi's next job was at Roma. He became a consultant for player transfers in 1977. During his time at Roma, the team won the 1979–80 Coppa Italia. Moggi helped bring Roberto Pruzzo to Roma, who became a key player.
Moggi left Roma after a disagreement with the new president, Dino Viola. This happened after a match where the president of the opposing team, Ascoli, complained about the refereeing. Moggi had been seen having dinner with the referee and his assistants the night before the game. Moggi said it was just a chance meeting. However, President Viola used this event as a reason to let Moggi go.
Moving Between Clubs
After a big football betting scandal in 1980 (which Moggi was not involved in), he was hired by Lazio as their general manager. He worked there for two years before leaving. In 1982, he moved to Torino. Fans sometimes protested because they weren't happy with the players he brought in. He stayed at Torino for five years.
On 22 June 1987, Moggi joined Napoli. This was right after Napoli had won their first league title with their star player, Diego Armando Maradona. With Moggi, Napoli won the 1989 UEFA Cup final, another league title in 1989–90 Serie A, and the 1990 Supercoppa Italiana. In March 1991, Moggi left Napoli because he had differences with the club president.
He then returned to Torino, where the club reached the 1992 UEFA Cup final and won the 1993 Coppa Italia final. In 1994, Moggi was investigated for some sporting issues, but he was found not guilty.
Success at Juventus
After leaving Torino, Moggi briefly returned to Roma. But in 1994, he moved back to Juventus. This time, he became a very important manager. The next twelve years at Juventus were the most successful of his career. He became known as one of the most important football managers in Italy and worldwide.
During this period, Juventus won many titles. They won five league titles, one UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intertoto Cup, one Coppa Italia, and four Supercoppa Italiana. They also reached several other major finals, including three Champions League finals.
Moggi stayed at Juventus until May 2006. At that time, he resigned because he was linked to a major investigation in sports, which became known as Calciopoli.
The Calciopoli Scandal
In May 2006, Luciano Moggi was seen as a central figure in Calciopoli. This was a big scandal involving referees and the top two Italian football leagues. Newspapers published details from phone calls where Moggi and a former referee nominator were said to be involved in choosing referees for certain matches.
This scandal led to Moggi's resignation from Juventus. He was banned from football for five years, and it was suggested he be banned for life from being part of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).
In 2011, a court in Naples found Moggi guilty of being part of a criminal group. His sentence was later reduced. In 2015, Italy's highest court, the Supreme Court of Cassation, said that some of the charges against Moggi were dropped because of the statute of limitations (meaning too much time had passed). However, the court still confirmed that Moggi was actively involved in actions that aimed to favor Juventus and benefit himself. The court also noted that the actions of other clubs and executives were not fully investigated.
In 2016, Juventus tried to sue the FIGC for damages because of their relegation in 2006, but their request was rejected. In 2017, Moggi's lifetime ban from football was officially confirmed after a final appeal.
Today, Moggi still shares his thoughts on Italian football in newspapers and on sports TV channels. In March 2020, after using all his appeals in Italy, Moggi appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to review how his trials were conducted.
See also
In Spanish: Luciano Moggi para niños
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Moggi at Roma in 1978 with Luciano Spinosi (left) and Roberto Pruzzo (right)
